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L&S 39GHealth, Human Behavior, and Data

Prof. Ryan Edwards

Class 2

September 8, 2015

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Today’s agenda• Office hours

• Some quick i>clicker questions about the readings

• Alastair and Catherine on the readings

• More in depth on the readings as necessary

• Divvy up the readings

• Moves App, look at the data, Excel

• PBEs and vaccinations, or HRS and pets

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Office hours

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Need to meet some other time? email [email protected]

Drop-in hours:

Wednesdays11am to noon

2pm to 3pm

Location:

2232 Piedmont Ave Room 212

Office location

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2232 Piedmont Ave Room 212

The UC Berkeley Demography Dept.

Enter on Piedmont, walk inside,go upstairs

Room 212 on your left

NorthUphill

2232 Piedmont Ave5

i>clicker question 2.1

A. It shows us the quantity of health care that will be available at different prices

B. It tells us about how patients value different quantities of health care

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Why do we care about the demand curve for health care?

i>clicker question 2.2

A. Premium = percent of the price of a unit of health care received that you pay out of pocket Copayment = periodic membership payment

B. These but reversed

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In health insurance, what is a “copayment”? What is a “premium”?

i>clicker question 2.3

A. Without experiments, people don’t know what their demand for health care is

B. There are different types of insurance plans, and sicker or healthier people choose different plans

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Why do we need “health insurance experiments” to measure the demand curve for health care?

i>clicker question 2.4

A. Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green

B. Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck

C. Jennifer Westfeldt and Jon Hamm

D. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

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Which celebrity couple *just* broke up?

Readings

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An exercise in data :)• I’d like all of us who are able to participate in a class-

wide data gathering experiment

• I’d like you to download and use the free “Moves” app on iOS or Android

• If you don’t have the hardware, or wish to opt out, no worries Your grade won’t suffer

• But I’d like us to use this chance to generate and examine our own real data

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et tu, El Niño?• As we’ll discuss this term, the weather is a very

plausibly exogenous treatment

• “Exogenous” means that it’s not related to my own individual or “endogenous” characteristics

• This fall might be pretty interesting in terms of Bay Area weather. Or it might not be

• We’ll look at temperature and precipitation and how they affect our physical activity

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Divvying up the reading list

• Everybody needs to select 3 of the next 13 weeks

• Let’s talk through the reading list

• Then if I can have 2 volunteers to prepare some remarks about next week’s (Sep 8) reading

• We can set up choices for the rest of the material either now or later online

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Sep 8 Bhattacharya chaps 1-2

Alastair & Catherine Oct 27 Ashenfelter

& Ziliak

Sep 15 Cutler et al. and Wachter Nov 3 Ruhm

Sep 22 Bhattacharya chap 3 Nov 10 Small &

Rosenbaum

Sep 29 Bhattacharya chap 4 Nov 17 Buckles &

Hungerman

Oct 6 Sutton and Bartholomew Nov 24 Carpenter

& Dobkin

Oct 13 Aron-Dine et al. Dec 1 Edwards &

Mason

Oct 20 Oster